Poll No. 158
Date:
18 October 2006
A survey prepared by Dr. Nabil
Kukali has
revealed:
(91.0%) Oppose attacking the churches in the territories
of the Palestinian territories.
(65.2%) Are in favor of the
dissolution of the Executive Force in Gaza Strip.
(30.1%) Believe that Mr. Ismael
Haniyyeh is the most credible
personality to be charged with the formation of the
national unity
government.
(57.5%) Are to various degrees in favor of holding
premature PLC-elections, whilst only (42.5%) are to
various extents in favor of
holding premature
Palestinian Authority presidential elections.
(65.4%) Support the strike of the public sector employees
and workers.
(35.3%) Are in favor of forming a
national unity government on the basis of the national
dialogue charter.
(61.8%) Oppose the dissolution of the Palestinian
Authority.
(45.9%) Evaluated the performance of the PA-President with
"very good" and "good", whilst (40.0%)
did that for the performance
of the Palestinian
Prime Minister.
(33.5%) Believe that the US intervention is responsible
for the present Palestinian crisis, whilst (27.7%) refer
that to the sticking of
Hamas to its positions.
(52.7%) Oppose the Palestinian government's refusal of the
international Quartet conditions.
Beit
Sahour – from the
Information Section
In
the most recent poll prepared by Dr.
Nabil
Kukali, Director of the Palestinian Center for
Public Opinion (PCPO), and conducted during the
period from October 8th to 15th,
2006, a random sample of (1020) respondents, representing
the various demographic specimen of the people living in
the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip,
who are above 18 years old, has been interviewed.
The
most significant result of this poll, Dr.
Kukali said, is that a
high rate of the Palestinians, namely (52.7%), oppose the
Palestinian government's refusal of the international
Quartet conditions, specifically (52.5%) are from Gaza
Strip and (52.8%) from the West Bank. In addition, Dr.
Kukali has shown that
(61.4%) are in favor of the meeting of the Palestinian
President "Abu Mazin" with the
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
and pointed out that a considerable rate of the
Palestinians are to various degrees in favor of holding
premature national elections in the Palestinian
territories, namely (57.5%), where (60.1%) are from the
West Bank and (53.0%) are from Gaza Strip, whilst only
(42.5%) to different extents are in favor of holding
premature presidential elections.
Dr. Kukali
concluded furthermore from the poll findings that the
Palestinian President, Mr. Mahmoud
Abbas, is still enjoying a
positive evaluation of his performance by the Palestinian
people. This rate has reached (45.9%), whilst those who
evaluated the performance of the Palestinian Prime
Minister in a positive way were (40.0%) of the
Palestinians.
Dr. Nabil
Kukali
said the results of the poll where as follows:
Q.1 Whom do you
think is to be held responsible for the prevailing
Palestinian crisis?
|
Response |
18 October 2006 |
|
1. The weak position of the
President of the
Palestinian Authority in
dealing with the crisis. |
13.9% |
|
2. The sticking of
Hamas to its positions. |
27.7% |
|
3. Hesitation of the Prime
Minister to take bold
measures in dealing with crisis. |
13.1% |
|
4. The sticking of
Fateh to its positions. |
7.6% |
|
5. The interference of the
United States of America. |
33.5% |
|
6. The interference of
certain Arab states. |
2.8% |
|
7. Don't know. |
1.4% |
Q.2
What is
your personal attitude towards the strike of the employees
and workers of the public sector?
|
Response |
18 October 2006 |
|
1. Strongly in favor |
36.7% |
|
2. Somewhat in favor |
28.7% |
|
3. Somewhat not in favor |
17.5% |
|
4. Strongly not in favor |
15.7% |
|
5. Don't know |
1.4% |
Q.3 How do you
evaluate the position of Hamas
towards the strike of the employees and workers of the
public sector?
|
Response |
18 October 2006 |
|
1. Positively |
17.2% |
|
2. Negatively |
60.2% |
|
3. Indifferently |
20.7% |
|
4. Don't know |
1.9% |
Q.4 How do you
evaluate the performance of the Palestinian Authority
President, Mr. Mahmoud
Abbas, at present?
|
Response |
18 October 2006 |
|
1. Very good |
14.3% |
|
2. Good |
31.6% |
|
3. Mediocre |
24.6% |
|
4. Bad |
15.6% |
|
5. Very bad |
12.7% |
|
6. Don't know |
1.2% |
Q.5 How do you
evaluate the performance of the Palestinian Prime
Minister, Mr. Ismael
Haniyyeh at present?
|
Response |
18 October 2006 |
|
1. Very good |
17.5% |
|
2. Good |
22.5% |
|
3. Mediocre |
26.2% |
|
4. Bad |
15.3% |
|
5. Very bad |
16.7% |
|
6. Don't know |
1.8% |
Q.6 Are you for
or against the dissolution of the Palestinian Authority?
|
Response |
18 October 2006 |
|
1. For that |
35.5% |
|
2. Against that |
61.8% |
|
3. Don't know
|
2.7% |
Q.7 Are you in
favor or not in favor of holding premature Palestinian
national elections at present?
|
Response |
18 October 2006 |
|
1. Strongly in favor |
37.1% |
|
2. Somewhat in favor |
20.4% |
|
3. Somewhat not in favor |
21.3% |
|
4. Strongly not in favor |
19.5% |
|
5. Don't know |
1.7% |
Q.8 Are you in
favor or not in favor of holding premature Palestinian
presidential elections at present?
|
Response |
18 October 2006 |
|
1. Strongly in favor |
21.8% |
|
2. Somewhat in favor |
20.7% |
|
3. Somewhat not in favor |
31.3% |
|
4. Strongly not in favor |
23.4% |
|
5. Don't know |
2.8% |
Q.9 What should
be the constitution of the national unity government to be
formed in order to put an end to the prevailing crisis?
|
Response |
18 October 2006 |
|
1. A national unity government
headed by Hamas. |
18.8% |
|
2. A national unity government
headed by Fateh. |
19.9% |
|
3. A national unity government
headed by an
independent personality, a
technocrate. |
19.3% |
|
4. An emergency government. |
5.2% |
|
5. A national unity government
on the basis of the
national
dialogue charter. |
35.3% |
|
6. Don't know |
1.5% |
Q.10 Are you in
favor or not in favor of attacking the churches in the
background of the Pope's comments on Islam?
|
Response |
18 October 2006 |
|
1. In favor |
7.9% |
|
2. Not in favor |
91.0% |
|
3. Don't know
|
1.1% |
Q.11 Are you in
favor of keeping the Executive Force that is formed in
Gaza by the Palestinian Ministry of interior, or are you
in
favor of its
dissolution?
|
Response |
18 October 2006 |
|
1. In favor of keeping it. |
31.7% |
|
2. In favor of its
dissolution |
65.2% |
|
3. Don't know |
3.1% |
Q.12 Who is the
Palestinian personality you trust more than any other one
to be charged with the formation of the national unity
government? Open
question:
|
Response |
18 October 2006 |
Response |
18 October 2006 |
|
1. Ismael
Haniyyeh |
30.1% |
12.
Aziz
Dwik |
2.4% |
|
2. Mohammad
Dahlan |
10.8% |
13.
Muneeb El-Masri |
1.8% |
|
3. Marwan
Bargouthi |
7.2% |
14.
Khaled Mesh’al |
1.6% |
|
4. Ahmad
Qrei’ |
6.9% |
15.
Yasser Abed Rabbo |
1.5% |
|
5. Mustafa
Barghouthi |
6.2% |
16.
Hanan
Ashrawi |
1.3% |
|
6.
Saeb
Ereikat |
5.2% |
17. Ahmed
Sa'adat |
1.2% |
|
7. Nabil
Sh’ath |
4.9% |
18. Sa'ed
Syam |
1.1% |
|
8.
Mahmoud Abbas |
4.6% |
19. Nabil
Abu Rodayna |
1.0% |
|
9. Salam Fayyad |
3.7% |
20.
Jibreel Rjoub |
1.0% |
|
10. Naser Al-Din
Al Shair |
2.8% |
21.
Bassam Al-Salhi |
0.8% |
|
11.
Mahmoud Al-Zahar |
2.6% |
22. Other |
1.3% |
Q.13 Mr.
Ismael
Haniyyeh has once again reiterated the refusal of
the Palestinian government of the international Quartet
conditions.
Do you agree with his position, or not?
|
Response |
18 October 2006 |
|
1. I agree |
41.8% |
|
2. I don't agree |
52.7% |
|
3. Don't know |
5.5% |
Q.14 It's
likely that the Palestinian President, Mr. Abu
Mazen, will meet next with the
Israeli Prime Minster, Mr. Ehud
Olmert.
Are you in favor of such a meeting, or not?
|
Response |
18 October 2006 |
|
1. In favor |
61.4% |
|
2. Not in favor |
37.9% |
|
3. Don't know
|
0.7% |
Methodology of the Survey
Study:
Mr. Elias Kukali,
a staff member of the Research and Studies' Section at the
PCPO, said that all interviews of this survey were
conducted inside the respondents' homes, i.e. face-to-face
during different working hours, at least 5 hours a day,
including the evening time, in order to ensure proper
representation of those sub-groups of the population,
which would otherwise be difficult to reach and
selecting one individual
in each household using Last Birthday Method. The choices
were taken from a total of (156) election sites, from
which (113) sites are located in West Bank and (43) sites
in Gaza Strip according to the distribution of the Central
Election Commission. These election sites were randomly
chosen by using the method of the simple random sample.
These in turn were the beginning of the random sample
choice made from those regions in accordance with
PCPO's long experienced
methodology.
